Cheryl Mackowiak

Assistant Professor
Nutrient Management and Water Quality

North Florida Research and Education Center


DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH AREAS
Management of Nutrients, Pesticides, and Wastes
Soil Quality/Ecosystem Services
Soil/Landscape Analysis

RESEARCH FOCUS
Studies elemental (N, P, C) cycling in soils under perennial pasture-hay cropping systems and soil fertility requirements for nutrient best management practice (BMP) advancement. Research emphasizes the development of soil nutrient management strategies for improving soil and water quality and soil assimilative capacity for municipal and agronomic wastes.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Mackowiak, C.L, P.R. Grossl, and K.L. Cook. 2004. Iodine toxicity in a plant-solution system with and without humic acid. Plant and Soil (in press).

Mackowiak, C.L, M.C. Amacher, J.O. Hall, and J.R. Herring. 2004. Uptake of selenium and other contaminant elements into plants and implications for grazing animals in southeast Idaho. In J.R. Hein (ed), Life cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: from deposition to the post-mining environment. Handbook of Exploration Geochemistry, Vol. 8. Elsevier Science, New York.

Mackowiak, C.L., P.R. Grossl, and B.G. Bugbee. 2001. Beneficial effects of humic acid on micronutrient availability to wheat. SSSAJ. 65:1744-1750.

CONTACT INFORMATION
North Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 155 Research Rd., Quincy, FL 32351
(850) 875.7126, (850) 875.7188 fax
email: echo13@ufl.edu
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